Property ID / No Dues Certificate Application

When you need it

An application to a Municipal Corporation, Municipal Council or Nagar Panchayat for a Property ID (also called a UID) for a property that does not yet carry one, for a No Dues Certificate confirming that no property tax, water or sewerage arrears are outstanding against an existing Property ID, or for both. Buyers, lenders and Sub-Registrar offices routinely ask for a current No Dues Certificate before a sale is registered, and the property-tax record itself has to be mutated into a new owner's name after a purchase, gift or inheritance — for which the office will ask for the Property ID first. This is the MUNICIPAL property-tax record, assessed under the Punjab Municipal Corporation Act, 1976 or the Punjab Municipal Act, 1911, and it is a different thing from the Chandigarh Estate Office's Annexure-1 No Dues Certificate or the Chandigarh Housing Board's own NDC, which clear ESTATE dues — ground rent, allotment instalments, misuse charges — on a leasehold site. A Chandigarh SCO or house on Estate Office land can need both: the Estate Office or CHB certificate for the leasehold interest, and this one for the municipal property-tax head, where the property carries its own separate Property ID. Where only the leasehold-transfer NDC is wanted, use that application instead of this one. Punjab: apply to the property-tax branch of the Municipal Corporation or Municipal Council in whose limits the property lies, commonly through that body's own online property-tax portal as well as at its counter. Chandigarh: apply to the property-tax wing of the Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh, at mcchandigarh.gov.in or at its office.

What follows is written for Punjab and Chandigarh. It states the position there rather than describing how it varies, so the amounts below are the ones that apply — worth confirming at the sub-registrar’s office, because rates change. If the property is anywhere else in India, none of this is yours.